#63: Eating Disorder Recovery in the Food Industry with Hannah Howard, Food Writer and Author of "Feast"

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 14 June 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Christy talks with food writer and culinary pro Hannah Howard about how her career has helped in her recovery from an eating disorder, why the support of a community is so important in developing a healthy relationship with food, and lots more!

Hannah Howard is a writer and food expert who spent her formative years in New York eating, drinking, serving, bartending, cooking on a hot line, flipping giant wheels of cheese, and managing restaurants. She writes about delicious things for a living, appears in food videos, teaches cheese and cooking classes, and hosts culinary events. Her memoir, Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen, is forthcoming with Little A in 2018.

Her work has been featured in VICE, The New York Times, Thought Catalog, AMEX OPEN forum, Serious Eats, New York Magazine’s Grub Street, refinery29, SELF and Cheese Connoisseur. She mentors women recovering from eating disorders on building a happy, healthy relationships with food and themselves. Hannah lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find her online at washedrinds.com.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders, and body image.
0:04.7	I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:08.8	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size. Join me as I talk with interesting
0:14.2	people from all walks of life about their relationships to food.
0:30.4	Hey guys, welcome to episode 63. So today we have a fabulous guest, it's Hannah Howard.
0:40.2	She's a food writer and cooking expert, cooking teacher. She teaches cheese classes. She has a
0:46.7	great background in the restaurant industry that we'll talk about. And she also is in recovery
0:51.9	from an eating disorder. So we'll talk with her about her winding path to developing the eating
0:57.6	disorder in college and then starting to recover all while working in the food world. So she and I
1:03.2	have a lot in common in terms of our has out of eating disorders and she has a lot of great insights
1:08.8	that she's going to share so I can't wait to get into that in just a moment. But first, I want to
1:13.3	point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your relationship with food.
1:18.0	The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is.
1:23.5	I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized individualized
1:28.7	tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now.
1:33.3	Take the quiz and get your results today at christieherison.com slash quiz. That's christieherison.com slash
1:40.4	quiz. The second resource I want to share is my intuitive eating online course. It's a 13-week
1:46.8	program that I created to help you work through all the principles of intuitive eating and depth
1:51.6	and really demystify and troubleshoot the common areas where people tend to get stuck.
1:57.1	I'll show you how to recognize the diet mentality even in its subtle forms and how to start
2:02.0	substituting healthy thoughts instead. I'll share my secrets to making food and exercise choices
2:07.6	from a place of self-care rather than self-control and I'll teach you how to navigate emotional
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